Regardless of your league type, it's always a good idea to pre-rank players in case you miss any part of the draft.

If you sign up for a public Autopick league, you might end up being placed in a live draft league (including Auction Draft leagues) in need of managers. If this happens, your team is still auto-picked.

Note: If you pre-rank your players, you won't be placed in an auction draft. If you are auto-drafting and you do not want to participate in an Auction draft, be sure to pre-rank you players.

The Auction Draft format is specifically designed for live drafts. The "Autopick" functionality was added to make sure drafts are completed at their scheduled times.

The strategy involved in the Auction Draft format isn't Autopick friendly -- we must include limits on what we allow the system to bid for each player.

With these limits in place, it's difficult for a team drafting with Autopick to obtain top quality players because managers who are live drafting will typically outbid the hard maximum that's in place.